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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1957

May 1957

 
  • John Montague
  • Joseph Bennett
  • Robert Beum
  • James Dickey
  • David Galler
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King Midas

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Earthly Love

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Figure in the Distance

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Table of Contents

  • Howard Moss
    • King Midas
  • Joseph D. Bennett
    • Earthly Love
  • Leonard E. Nathan
    • Figure in the Distance
    • A Mexican in Passing
  • Geoffrey Hill
    • Wreaths
  • Robert Lawrence Beum
    • The Cholthoi Panel
    • The Exhibition
    • Six A.M.
  • Robert Mezey
    • It Is June, This Jesting Heat
  • David Galler
    • Snow Scene
    • For Robert Graves
  • Stephen Stepanchev
    • The Artist and the Nude
    • Unmelodious Song
  • Frank O’Hara
    • Cambridge
    • Lisztiana
    • On a Mountain
    • Poem ("Instant coffee with...")
  • J. Radcliffe Squires
    • Clara Bodfish
    • The Forms of Blindness
    • Self as an Eye
  • James L. Dickey
    • The First Morning of Cancer
Comment
  • Wallace Fowlie
    • Jorge Guillén, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot: Some Recollections
  • Samuel French Morse
    • The Time Made Good
  • William Belvin
    • Five Poets
CONTRIBUTORS
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  • Joseph D. Bennett
  • Robert Lawrence Beum
  • James L. Dickey
  • Wallace Fowlie
  • David Galler
  • Geoffrey Hill
  • Robert Mezey
  • Samuel French Morse
  • Howard Moss
  • Leonard E. Nathan
  • Frank O’Hara
  • J. Radcliffe Squires
  • Stephen Stepanchev
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